The Companys Supply Chain Management Processes - 2003 Words

Before suggesting new initiatives for Air Products, this study will first discuss the company s Supply Chain Management processes, processes that could be greatly improved by BPR. A business process is a collection of linked tasks that result in the delivery of a service or product to a client. A business process is also understood to be a set or activities and tasks that once completed, will accomplish an organizational goal. A business is an organizational system in which economic resources (input) are transformed by various business processes (processing) into goods and services (output). Business processes include marketing, developing, producing, and delivering products and services that support customers (O Brien, 2011). In the†¦show more content†¦Through its SCM, Air Products delivers its LNG in bulk (in liquid or gaseous form) by tanker or tube trailer and usually stored in its liquid state, in equipment designed and installed typically by the company at the customer s site for vaporizing into gaseous state needed. Liquid of the world. I will make recommendations for how this business process can be reengineered in accordance to the company s values of quality, innovation, and service through Business Process Reengineering (BPR) (Hammer, 110). BPR is a management approach involving a fundamental rethinking and radical design of the business process to achieve dramatic improvements in critical contemporary measures of performance such as cost, quality, service and speed. BPR elevates efficiency and effectiveness of the company s processes that exist within and across the organizations. The key to BPR is for the company to examine its business processes from a clean slate perspective and determine how they can best construct these processes to improve how they conduct business. This perspective enables the designers of the business processes to dissociate themselves from the current process and focus on developing a new process. The goals BPR seeks to accomplish can be achieved by taking steps such as 1) subsuming information processing work into the real work that produces the information; 2) Treat